Tuesday, September 18, 2012

tomato harvest & tasting...

each year...
at the end of the season...
cornerstone sonoma has a tomato tasting event.

i've been babying my remaining tomatoes for the past few weeks...
to make sure i have just the ones i want to take with me.

i initially thought i'd have some spoon tomatoes...
and some cassidy's follies to enter.
but upon arriving home a few weekends ago...
i discovered that the new baby mockingbirds in my yard enjoyed them too.
mrchazman went to the local store and got netting for me...
to cover and protect the remaining tomatoes and plants.

since my plants had been pretty much picked clean...
the spoons weren't quite ready...
but i did have a few other varieties to take with me.

one of the varieties i entered was the indigo rose.
it is a first year tomato out of oregon state university.

the color is so dark...
they almost appear to be black.
i was very pleased that they won in the 'best color' category this year.